Colonial encounters in Asia and Africa:
-Enormous productivity of industrial technology created new need for extensive raw material and agricultural products
-Industrial Capitalism produced more goods than people could buy, they needed to sell their products
Imperalism: a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. It promised to solve the class conflicts of an industraizing society while avoiding revolution or the serious redistribution of wealth.
Asia:
Britain- India
USA- Phillipines
Netherlands- East Indies
Japan- Korea
France- Indochina
South Pacific territories (Aussie & NZ) were both taken over by the british. Smiliar to early colonization of North America. Conquest was accompanied by large-scale European settlement and diseases that reduced native numbers by 75% or more. These became settle colonies "neo-european" societies in the South Pacific.
Colonial take over changed the way work was performed. Old working ways were eroded almost everywhere int he colonial world. Peasant families (farms) diminished as growing numbers directed their energies to working or selling what they produced as a cash income. The money was necessary to pay taxes, school fees and for buying things that were essential to their survival. Artistans suffered when cheaper machine manufactured merchandies displaced their own hand-made goods. Occupations for blacksmithing and tanning lost their place within African societies. Asian and African merchants were squeezed out by well financed european commercial firms
King Leopold II of Belgium inflicted the most cruelty upon the people of Congo for rubber that was used in bicycles and automobiles. Forced Labor in the Congo and neigboring German colony of Cameroon laid the foundations of the AIDS epidemic.
East Africa: White men expected to be called bwana( master) and they called African men "boy." Education for colonial subjects was limited and skewed toward practical subjects rather than scientific and literary studies, which were widely regarded as inappropriate for the primitive mind of natives.
Europeans were reluctant to allow the highly educated Asians and Africans to enter the higher ranks of the colonial civil service. Most extreme case was south Africa where the largest European population and the widespread use of African labor in mines and industries brought blacks and whites into closer and more prolonged contact than anywhere else in the world.
Growing integration of Asian and African societies into the world economy that increasingly demanded their gold, diamonds, copper, tin, rubber, coffee, cotton, sugar, cocoa, and many others products.
Religion provided the basis for transformed identities during the colonial era. Most dramatic changes were widespread conversion to christianity took place in NZ, the pacific islands, and especially non muslim Africa. The missionary brought on european medicine, education, gender roles, and culture.
The first visual piece depicted Africa as a nation with color, culture and a rich country. Colors and the sun suggested that Africa was the new piece of the world that needed to be recognized.
The 2nd visual of the French commander shows him standing over a native fighter that has died in battle. He is heroically leading the forces of converted natives against the natives of the land that do not adhere to French rule. Shows that France is in charge and that even natives are fighting under the French flag.
the third visual shows Rhodes extending his reach from Egypt to south Africa Possible shows how far he has come and how much of an influence he has in both regions as a business owner and a european.
The fourth visual showed the success of the British and French occupation in the African countries.
the fifth shows the successful Ethiopian stance against the attempted conquest of the Italians.
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